Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Future business

The Committee considers its work programme regularly to maintain a rolling programme of business. The Committee's main business over the coming months will include: 

Draft Climate Change Plan

The Scottish Government laid a draft Climate Change Plan on 6 November 2025.

This follows the Scottish Parliament’s approval of regulations which set five-year carbon budgets - limits on the amount of greenhouse gas which can legally be emitted over a given time. The CCP seeks to meet the reduction targets set out in the regulations for the period 2026-2040. 

Scottish Parliament committees now have 120 days (until 5 March) to scrutinise and report on the aspects of the Plan which fall under their remit.  

Find out more about the Committee’s scrutiny of the Climate Change Plan and the Call for Views in our animation. 

Ecocide (Scotland) Bill

The Committee is currently undertaking scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1 (consideration of the general principles).

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the UK Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill

Other business

The Committee expects to use remaining meeting time before dissolution in March 2026 to scrutinise current issues relating to transport, energy, the circular economy, and environmental protection and regulation. Where possible, it will also continue to have annual “check-in” evidence sessions with autonomous public bodies with regulatory roles in these areas. (Check the Committee’s “current business” tabs for more information on all areas where the Committee maintains a watching brief.) There’s also a possibility of other Legislative Consent Memorandums, or supplementary LCMs, on UK Bills being referred to the Committee in the coming months. 

Correspondence

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Official Reports of meetings

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Committee reports

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To consider and report on matters falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, with the exception of matters relating to just transition; and on matters relating to land reform, natural resources and peatland, Scottish Land Commission, Crown Estate Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden within the responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands.